[Wikipedia-l] Bengali Wikipedia Reaches 10, 000 articles: 50th language to do so!

[Ragib Hasan]

Hi Everyone,
Bengali Wikipedia (http://bn.wikipedia.org ) has reached the milestone
of 10,000 articles today. This is the 50th language to reach the
milestone, and the 2nd language from South Asia to do so.

Bengali is spoken by almost 220-250 million people, making it the 7th
largest language in terms of total speakers. Bengali Wikipedia has
seen a growth from 500 articles in March 2006 to 10,000 as of now.

There are now 20-25 active editors who edit Bengali wikipedia on a
regular basis. These editors are mainly from Bangladesh, and also from
West Bengal (India). The main thrust has been the Bangladesh Open
Source Network (BDOsn), and the Bangla Wiki project, which has raised
awareness, involved the media, and recruited more editors to work on
Bengali Wikipedia.

We also have article improvement projects, aiming at having at least
1000 or so Good articles (similar to English wikipedia) by May 2007.

Thanks

Ragib

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Ragib Hasan
PhD Student
Dept of Computer Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Urbana IL 61801

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